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Pakistan: Agricultural land grab by military
- PKRC
- 18 Mar 2023
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) strongly condemns the agricultural land grab by military. PKRC is member organization of LA Via Campesina.
Guyana offers 200 acres of land for exclusive production of millets
- Mint
- 18 Mar 2023
Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali offered India 200 acres of land for exclusive cultivation and production of millets in honour of the United Nations declaring the year 2023 as the International Year of Millet
Tanzania and DRC deepen investment and trade ties
- The Citizen
- 18 Mar 2023
Tanzania has opened up opportunities for DRC investors to invest in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, manufacturing, mining and tourism
Corporate farming: Punjab BoR asked to hand over 45,267 acres of state land to army
- Business Recorder
- 17 Mar 2023
Pakistan General Headquarters of Lands Directorate has asked the Board of Revenue, Punjab to handover state lands of 45,267 acres to the Pakistan Army for corporate agriculture farming.
Danish investor pays EUR 10 mln for 1,370 ha farm in Romania
- Romania Insider
- 14 Mar 2023
Danish investors from the Romania Farm Invest bought a farm of 1,370 hectares in Romania for EUR 10 million through one of their companies registered here – JD Agro Cocora.
West Papuan Indigenous defender files lawsuit over palm oil company forest land grab
- Pusaka Bentala Rakyat
- 14 Mar 2023
Indigenous leader of the Awyu people filed an environmental and land rights lawsuit challenging the plan by a Malaysian-owned palm oil company that will clear tens of thousands of hectares of West Papuan forest.
Corporate Carbon purchases three Cape York properties, starts agriculture arm
- Beef Central
- 13 Mar 2023
One of Australia’s largest carbon aggregators has added three properties to its Cape York portfolio and launched an agriculture company to manage the cattle side of its operation.
Food security concerns put Florida at the forefront of foreign farmland ownership fight
- The Capitolist
- 12 Mar 2023
Recent farmland purchases by Chinese, Middle Eastern, and other foreign government investors have raised concerns about food exports being prioritized over domestic consumption.
Liberia: GVL violates villagers’ rights then sues them for palm theft
- FrontPageAfrica
- 09 Mar 2023
Five men were arrested and beaten on accusations of stealing palm from GVL plantation, but they deny any wrongdoing.
Kenya gets more fertile land in Zambia to grow maize for food security
- The Star
- 08 Mar 2023
Zambia has allocated 20,000 hectares of land to large-scale farmers in Kenya to start growing maize which will be exported in the country.
New report highlights black farmer land loss and discrimination in Mississippi Delta
- NFFC
- 06 Mar 2023
The report details corporate land investments in the Mississippi Delta region, and ways that the growth of speculative farmland ownership exacerbates barriers that farmers face accessing and maintaining land in the region.
Soyabean mega farm set to reap second crop
- Stabroek News
- 05 Mar 2023
Tacama Gold, a company owned by Guyanase and Brazilian businessmen, requested 85,000 acres of land but was given 27,000, so that the venture could be assessed before additional land was given.